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Overview

Adrian Sleigh is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has a research focus within the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their publications span various subfields, including General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Health, Emergency Medicine, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. The main topics addressed in Sleigh's work include chronic disease management strategies, health disparities and outcomes, global health care issues, emergency and acute care studies, trauma and emergency care studies, disaster response and management, and child nutrition and water access.

Sleigh has contributed to multiple research papers published in prominent venues such as Environmental Research, BMC Public Health, Global Journal of Health Science, International Journal of Public Health, and Nature Medicine. Notable recent papers include:

  • Long-term air pollution exposure and self-reported morbidity: A longitudinal analysis from the Thai cohort study (TCS), 2020, Environmental Research
  • Association between greenness and cardiovascular risk factors: Results from a large cohort study in Thailand, 2023, Environmental Research
  • Pathways to care: a case study of traffic injury in Vietnam, 2021, BMC Public Health
  • A blueprint for eliminating cholera by 2030, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • The Impact of Multimorbidity on All-Cause Mortality: A Longitudinal Study of 87,151 Thai Adults, 2023, International Journal of Public Health

Frequent collaborators include Sam-ang Seubsman, Matthew Kelly, Xiyu Feng, Haribondhu Sarma, and Cathy Banwell. Their joint contributions reflect interactions across various studies, emphasizing multidisciplinary cooperation within public health research.

Among the publication venues where Sleigh's work is regularly featured are:

  • Environmental Research
  • BMC Public Health
  • Global Journal of Health Science
  • International Journal of Public Health
  • Nature Medicine

The research conducted by Sleigh covers health conditions and factors relevant to population health management, such as air pollution effects, cardiovascular risk factors in relation to environmental greenness, injury care pathways, infectious disease elimination strategies, and multimorbidity impacts on mortality. Their studies often involve longitudinal analysis and large cohort data sets, providing insights into health outcomes in Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Vietnam.

Best Publications

  • Schistosomiasis in the People's Republic of China: Prospects and Challenges for the 21st Century

    Allen G. P. Ross;Adrian C. Sleigh;Yuesheng Li;George M. Davis

  • Cardiac morbidity and mortality due to Chagas' disease: prospective electrocardiographic study of a Brazilian community.

    J H Maguire;R Hoff;I Sherlock;A C Guimarães

  • Resettlement for China's Three Gorges Dam: socio-economic impact and institutional tensions

    Sukhan Jackson;Adrian Sleigh

  • Catastrophic medical payment and financial protection in rural China: evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Shandong Province.

    Xiaoyun Sun;Sukhan Jackson;Gordon Carmichael;Adrian C. Sleigh

  • All hands on deck: Transdisciplinary approaches to emerging infectious disease

    Margot W. Parkes;Margot W. Parkes;Leslie Bienen;Jaime Breilh;Lee Nah Hsu

  • Association between heat stress and occupational injury among Thai workers: findings of the Thai Cohort Study.

    Benjawan Tawatsupa;Benjawan Tawatsupa;Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan;Tord Kjellstrom;Tord Kjellstrom;Janneke Berecki-Gisolf

  • Mathematical modelling of schistosomiasis japonica: comparison of control strategies in the People's Republic of China

    Gail M. Williams;Adrian C. Sleigh;Yuesheng Li;Zheng Feng

  • Association between occupational heat stress and kidney disease among 37,816 workers in the Thai Cohort Study (TCS).

    Benjawan Tawatsupa;Benjawan Tawatsupa;Lynette L-Y Lim;Tord Kjellstrom;Tord Kjellstrom;Sam-ang Seubsman;Sam-ang Seubsman

  • Thai SF-36 health survey: tests of data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability and validity in healthy men and women

    Lynette L-Y Lim;Sam-ang Seubsman;Adrian Sleigh

  • Synanthropy of Wild Mammals as a Determinant of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Asian–Australasian Region

    Ro McFarlane;Adrian Sleigh;Tony McMichael

  • Poverty and the economic effects of TB in rural China.

    S Jackson;Adrian Sleigh;G-J Wang;X-L Liu

  • The association between overall health, psychological distress, and occupational heat stress among a large national cohort of 40,913 Thai workers

    Benjawan Tawatsupa;Lynette L-Y Lim;Tord Kjellstrom;Sam-ang Seubsman

  • Cohort Profile: The Thai Cohort of 87 134 Open University students

    Adrian C Sleigh;Sam-ang Seubsman;Chris Bain

  • A DRUG-BASED INTERVENTION STUDY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BUFFALOES FOR HUMAN SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM INFECTION AROUND POYANG LAKE, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

    Jiagang Guo;Yuesheng Li;Darren Gray;An Ning

  • Predicting Super Spreading Events during the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Epidemics in Hong Kong and Singapore

    Yuguo Li;Ignatiusts T.S. Yu;Pengcheng Xu;Joseph Hun Wei Lee

  • Validity of self-reported weight, height, and body mass index among university students in Thailand: implications for population studies of obesity in developing countries.

    Lynette Ly Lim;Sam-ang Seubsman;Adrian Sleigh

  • Personal Wellbeing Index in a National Cohort of 87,134 Thai Adults

    V. Yiengprugsawan;S. Seubsman;S. Khamman;L. L.-Y. Lim

  • Body mass index and health-related behaviours in a national cohort of 87 134 Thai open university students

    Cathy Banwell;Lynette Lim;Sam-Ang Seubsman;Chris Bain

  • Epidemiology of Schistosoma japonicum in China: morbidity and strategies for control in the Dongting Lake region.

    Y.S Li;A.C Sleigh;A.G.P Ross;G.M Williams

  • Measuring and decomposing inequity in self-reported morbidity and self-assessed health in Thailand.

    Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan;Lynette Ly Lim;Gordon A Carmichael;Alexandra Sidorenko

  • Prescribing behaviour of village doctors under China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme

    Xiaoyun Sun;Sukhan Jackson;Gordon A. Carmichael;Adrian C. Sleigh

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail M. Williams
Gail M. Williams University of Queensland
Donald P. McManus
Donald P. McManus Australian National University
Jane Dixon
Jane Dixon Australian National University
Mauricio Lima Barreto
Mauricio Lima Barreto Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Lyndall Strazdins
Lyndall Strazdins Australian National University
Scott A. Ritchie
Scott A. Ritchie James Cook University
Christopher A. Reid
Christopher A. Reid Monash University
Andrew Steptoe
Andrew Steptoe University College London
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Rebecca McKetin
Rebecca McKetin University of New South Wales

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